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...PONTIAC, MICH. Racial confrontations, the bombing of buses and a school boycott made Pontiac a national symbol of white resistance to busing in 1971. Since then, tempers have cooled, and School Superintendent Dana Whitmer considers the busing program, which includes 15,500 of the city's 20,193 public school students, a qualified success. He concedes that overall test scores in reading and math have declined slightly because high-achieving white students from affluent families have left the district. But Whitmer maintains that individual achievement for both blacks and whites has remained the same and that "the outlook is good...
Rollers is the British word for soft rockers. That accounts for one part of the group's name. Its collective eye on the American market, the Rollers stuck a pin in a map of the U.S. and hit Bay City, Mich...
...state fair in Springfield. In Georgia, meanwhile, they are still talking about the new tobacco-spitting champion, Mrs. Marie Davidek by name. "You wouldn't believe it," said Bob Anderson, manager of the 25th annual Georgia Mountain Fair. "Here was this nice little old lady from Flint, Mich., all dressed up like a grandmother from the garden-club set. She'd never chewed any tobacco in all her born days, and she winds up and wins by spitting 9½ ft. Whooee, it was really something...
This week, a decade after Houston opened its Astrodome and pronounced it the Eighth Wonder of the World, New Orleans will stage the "grand opening" of its 97,365-capacity Louisiana Superdome, which could absorb the 66,000-seat Astrodome with room to spare. Last week Pontiac, Mich., opened its 80,400-seat, $55.7 million Metropolitan Stadium, 25 miles northwest of Detroit, with an exhibition football game between the Detroit Lions and the Kansas City Chiefs. Seattle hopes to complete the dome on the 60,000-seat, $60 million King County Stadium next year "in time for the baseball season...
Because it is accessible only by boat or plane, Isle Royal National Park in Lake Superior is still uncrowded. The 45-mile-long island is a glacier-compacted wilderness of immense topographical variety, pierced by 120 miles of trails. Says Backpacker Eddie Maier, an environmental engineer from Lansing, Mich.: "When you step on the island, it's like stepping back 200 years." Flora and fauna spotters can look for 101 varieties of wildflowers, 40 varieties of birds and five kinds of fish that are unique to the island; moose can be seen swimming in birch-fringed coves. For those...